V4: Y. MONTAND 1954-58

“During this Fifties period when times weren’t easy — an extremely lucrative bungled American contract, the bitter triumph of a tour in Paradise, a few roles in films (not yet the master-actor), and sincere, if not militant, politics —, Yves Montand, even though he was no writer or composer, succeeded quite simply in becoming the undisputed Prince of French Chanson.” Daniel NEVERS